Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
John Bell : his "past history connected with the public service"
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Approx. 25 items. Photocopies of articles from the LAT employee newsletter, "Among Ourselves" and some items from column titled "In Times Past." Events reported include: "Aeroplane Delivers Times" (1911) - "the first time newspapers had been delivered by aeroplane"; "Widowed Grandmother Wins Times Model Home"; "Conrad Exhibit now on Display at County Museum" (1979); "Times helped organize the fight for transcontinental highway" (from a 1979 issue on a 1912 event); "A Photographic Romp through the 1950s"; etc.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, narratives, and eight large volumes of clippings related to the members of the Jayhawkers, their overland trip to the California gold fields through Death Valley, and their annual reunions held between 1872 to 1918. It also contains diaries by Asa Haines and Sheldon Young of the Jayhawkers' route and a map of Death Valley by William Lewis Manly, approximately 1889. The collection was assembled by John B. Colton (1831-1919), a member of the Jayhawker party. Participants in the collection include: John Wells Brier, Reverend James Brier, William Frederick Dody, Jessie Benton Fremont, John Groscup, Eliza Poor Donner Houghton, Charles Fletcher Lummis, William Lewis Manley, Charles B. Mecum, and Lorenzo Dow Stephens. The collection also includes items related to Mary Hunter Austin, Frederic Remington, and Theodore Roosevelt.
JA 335
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Manuscripts
Also signed for Mrs. J. B. Colton by Belle Colton.
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